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Oxford is embarking on a multi-year transformation of our Global Finance & Technology operating model, including the modernization of technology and data capabilities to support our teams. Finance Transformation Manager will be a key member of the transformation team and will work with our internal partners to understand their needs and deliver outcomes, with excellence. This role joins a team on a journey, with significant future potential in a global, sophisticated, and complex enterprise.
We believe that time together in the office is important for Oxford, the strength of our employees, and the work we do for our pension members. Our flexible hybrid work guideline requires teams to come to the office a minimum of 3-4 days per week.
Scope of Position
Reporting to the Finance Transformation Senior Advisor, the Finance Transformation Manager will lead the accountable for coordinating with internal and external delivery partners, such as Business Integrator, System Integrator, Change Management and other internal control partners, to ensure the process improvement initiatives are within scope, budget and schedule constraints.
The incumbent will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the process improvement initiatives and ensure integration across the program.
As a member of this team, you will be responsible for:
- Managing the execution of larger finance transformation and improvement initiatives to unlock capacity, automate and/ or eliminate non-value-added activities, and challenge the status quo to achieve process efficiency and effectiveness.
- Process finance transformation reengineering through facilitated process mapping sessions to document current environment, capture identification of process re-engineering opportunities, develop action plans, lead or facilitate brainstorm sessions to achieve future state.
- Design and manage project workplan, project RAID logs (Risk, Action, Issues, Decisions) and other project deliverables including timeline and resources to reduce program risks, escalate and resolve issues on a timely basis to meet deadlines.
- Drive the cadence and discipline on completion of project tasks consistent with program management industry best practices.
- Build relationships with internal stakeholders, external service providers, and/or contractors.
- Actively managing program scope, timeline and resources to reduce program risks, escalate and resolve issues on a timely basis to meet deadlines.
- Facilitate program performance reporting to help Program Leadership and Program Management Office to communicate consistent program status reports, progress measurements and expected results.
To succeed in this role, you have:
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Undergraduate degree in Business, Finance, or relevant discipline
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3-5 years of progressive management and project delivery experience leading large and medium projects from end-to-end, strong knowledge of project management methodologies, governance, controls and tools.
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Superior written and verbal communication skills coupled with an ability to build compelling cases that demonstrate value and can be used to gain buy-in by building trust and credibility from Oxford senior executive team.
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Excellent relationship building, persuasion and presentation skills and willingness to embrace collaborative sharing of knowledge within a teamwork environment.
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Drive to achieve results and continuously strive to deliver the highest performance.
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Experience working in the Commercial Real Estate industry and in leading software implementation and change management project preferred.
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SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, PMP experience and qualifications would be considered an asset.
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Process Improvement experience (e.g., Lean or Six Sigma qualifications / experience) would be considered an asset.
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Change management experience (e.g., Prosci or Agile Change Management qualifications / experience) would be considered an asset.
Please note this is a two year contract position.
Oxford's purpose is to strengthen economies and communities through real estate.
Our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the customers we proudly serve.
From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.
What We Do
Founded in 1962, OMERS is one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, with $133.6 CAD billion in net assets as of June 30, 2024.
With employees in our offices in Toronto, London, New York, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe, OMERS invests and administers pensions for over half a million active, deferred and retired employees of 1,000 municipalities, school boards, libraries, police and fire departments, and other local agencies in communities across Ontario
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